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The ultimate efficiency hack: Have kids(qz.com)
5 points by thumper 10y ago|0 comments
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by thumper 12y ago
This was my thought, too. I spent countless hours hiding inside of boxes as a child. I always found it comfortable to be "held" by the box, and loved the notion that I couldn't be seen by others. My cats did not join me in
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by thumper 12y ago
That seemed pretty convincing, but then I added some comparison terms like "instagram" and "snapchat"... they are hardly a blip. I think that argues that the world is going mobile, but then maybe google trends isn'
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by thumper 15y ago
The crazy thing is that when people say that to me, I kinda roll my eyes but try it so that I'm not dismissive... and sometimes it works!
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by thumper 15y ago
I had the same experience -- I didn't fully grasp how useful XHP was until I had to use it. Not only are they reusable components, but the type system they create and can enforce is a powerful aid to helping me suss out how they were meant
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by thumper 16y ago
IPTDL (I prefer to date lawyers) and "that's what she said." More specifically, that income comes in many forms, and that even stock/options (in exchange for services) could count unless all the correct paperwork has been filed.
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by thumper 16y ago
cough Worlds Chat cough Seriously, we had that exact idea implemented around 1997 -- and it even supported multiple authentications (anonymous worlds, versus worlds with user accounts) all transparently. And it could even do VRML, crow
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by thumper 16y ago
Language is a tool. Certainly, some people will create literature and others are merely hacks. Some languages will be conceptually cleaner, some more pure, and some an amalgam of expressions "borrowed" from other languages. No, Virginia,
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by thumper 16y ago
I wonder if these guys would have gotten funding in today's corporate world, showing off that clunky device! It seems like this is a good example of the kind of leap that management needs to be able to take to see the potential of research
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by thumper 16y ago
thanks! I totally missed that in my effort to reclaim some of my time.
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by thumper 16y ago
One thing that I have been itching for is an RSS feed of the top articles. Maybe there's already some way to get that which I haven't found?
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by thumper 16y ago
When I was in high school and college, my measure was to enter programming contests where competition was on time and following a spec. I did well on these, and I agree with earlier posters that this boils down to being familiar with a lan
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by thumper 16y ago
My lawyer friend asked me to set up some "extranets" for her, because she came from a firm background where having private websites for each client was the norm. I looked into this a bit and I found "Ajax File Browser" available at SourceF
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by thumper 16y ago
My first thought was "US" and "Halliburton", but then I suppose we fill in the blanks with the protagonists we know best. The one thing that has me stumped is the python angle...
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by thumper 16y ago
Another example that came up while I was testing the Zeo: their tracker asks how much caffeine you have after 3pm daily. While I was messing around with their graphs, I discovered a clear correlation between cans of soda and poor sleep the
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by thumper 16y ago
I run on a Macbook (not Pro!) with 4GB RAM. For a while, I was doing some IE plugin development and went with separate VMs for IE6, 7, and 8 (used the MSFT distributed VirtualPC ones, actually). That got me used to the idea of switching b
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by thumper 16y ago
I thought this was interesting because I've seen a few cases where the business people were gung-ho, but you could see how the relationship would turn out from the negotiation. No doubt a commission incentive doesn't help, but this can app
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The Dark Side of Negotiating(djlcorplaw.com)
2 points by thumper 16y ago|1 comments
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by thumper 17y ago
I ran into this trouble just recently, in taking a job while still in grad school in California. The school has pretty broad language about owning all my ideas, but does reference Section 2870. On reading Section 2870, there are exception
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by thumper 17y ago
I jumped over this fence a few times, having done a startup after college, then did consulting for years, then dove into grad school to find out what "research" was really all about. I'm still in grad school, but just really took a job wor
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by thumper 17y ago
I was looking around for the answer to this question, too. I was a little surprised at the ordering of the top couple of movies, and that got me wondering if "most popular" was normalized somehow. Are these the most popular from 2009? We
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by thumper 17y ago
It's not directly related, but I just ran into an interesting article on data analysis. It includes pointers to some good texts on topic, but also has some tips which aren't covered in the standard texts. "Three Things Statistics Textbooks
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by thumper 17y ago
My chiropractor recommended the "Dyna-flex" gyro ball, when I developed persistent pain years back. This worked great for me as a way to strengthen the muscles in my arm, and my pain went away after a month. Since then, I have a twinge pe
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by thumper 17y ago
Thanks. Okay, I see what you're saying. Actually, they still won't make that information available, though we have been asking a while. That was a big challenge when we started, but I think it was a good constraint because it pushed us i
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by thumper 17y ago
I don't think that there was disagreement that there would one day be a problem, even in 2004. But "drawing on the same set of resources" doesn't seem like a fair way to think of it, especially to conclude that your idea would have led to